The Best Vivian Leigh quotes

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love. — Vivien Leigh

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood–and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. — Vivien Leigh

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. — Vivien Leigh

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do. — Vivien Leigh

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution. — Vivien Leigh

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I’ve made up my mind to do something, I can’t be persuaded out of it. — Vivien Leigh

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I’m already 45. — Vivien Leigh

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. — Vivien Leigh

I don’t know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be. — Vivien Leigh

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. — Vivien Leigh

Things are simple when you’re going to die. — Vivien Leigh

I’m a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me. — Vivien Leigh

English people don’t have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. — Vivien Leigh

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy–and a much better training, I think. It’s much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. — Vivien Leigh

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms. — Vivien Leigh

I’ve always been mad about cats. — Vivien Leigh

It’s much easier to make people cry than to laugh. — Vivien Leigh

I always know my lines. — Vivien Leigh

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. — Vivien Leigh

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards. — Vivien Leigh

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing. — Vivien Leigh

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. — Vivien Leigh

Every single night I’m nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react. — Vivien Leigh

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven’t. — Vivien Leigh

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That’s why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. — Vivien Leigh

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play. — Vivien Leigh